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Oak wilt is a devastating exotic disease, killing some trees rapidly in a single season. [7] Oak wilt is an important disease in urban areas where trees are highly valued. . The disease reduces property values because of the loss of trees and is economically costly to the property owner since they or the local government must pay for tree remo
It causes Japanese oak wilt disease, and is spread by the ambrosia beetle (Platypus quercivorus). It has small obovoid to pyriform sympodioconidia and slender, long conidiophores. The fungus has been isolated from the body surfaces and mycangia of the beetle.
Oak wilt (Bretziella fagacearum), a vascular disease, attacks chinquapin oak and usually kills the tree within two to four years. Other diseases that attack chinquapin oak include the cankers Strumella coryneoidea and Nectria galligena, shoestring root rot (Armillarea mellea), anthracnose (Gnomonia veneta), and leaf blister (Taphrina spp.).
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Mar. 27—TRAVERSE CITY — Conservation experts want area residents to carefully plan any pruning or trimming to their oak trees in an effort to prevent the spread of an invasive fungal disease.
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Dutch elm disease is a pathogen spread by beetles that devastated American elm, other native elms are more resistant; Thousand cankers disease is a fungus carried by a beetle that infests black walnut; Oak wilt is a fungal pathogen spread by sap beetles that infects oaks; Beech bark disease is a fungus carried by a scale insect that infests ...
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